Sort of like getting a gold star.
No wait, it IS getting a gold star.
Stuff I said that other people liked:
Favotter
and
Favrd
I check these sites every week because yes, I am exactly that needy.
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
A TOP 10 LIST about SXSW
My friend Lisa wrote a list about South By SouthWest (SxSW) and it made me laugh so hard I wanted to share it.
Also from checking out flickr, the "tech" part of SxSW consisted mostly of drinking and karaoke. Is all I'm saying.
"Top Ten Reasons I Didn’t Go to SXSW" by PPRLisa
10. They filled their “maven” quota before I could register
9. Heard @ChrisBrogan would be performing a belly dance and no one should have to see that
8. The #iRoadTrip guys found me stowing away in the back of the car before they left Detroit
7. I only go to shows with three X’s in them
6. Wouldn’t want to miss all of the unnecessary hashtagging on Twitter by actually participating in the event
5. Was intimidated knowing that I could never out-dress @ScottMonty
4. @marketingprofs and I planned a WAY cooler, secret, invite only virtual social media conference
3. Not everyone in social media’s mom lets them leave the basement for a whole week
2. I heard all the REALLY cool kids were going to the Star Trek convention
and
1. I enjoy sleep
Also from checking out flickr, the "tech" part of SxSW consisted mostly of drinking and karaoke. Is all I'm saying.
"Top Ten Reasons I Didn’t Go to SXSW" by PPRLisa
10. They filled their “maven” quota before I could register
9. Heard @ChrisBrogan would be performing a belly dance and no one should have to see that
8. The #iRoadTrip guys found me stowing away in the back of the car before they left Detroit
7. I only go to shows with three X’s in them
6. Wouldn’t want to miss all of the unnecessary hashtagging on Twitter by actually participating in the event
5. Was intimidated knowing that I could never out-dress @ScottMonty
4. @marketingprofs and I planned a WAY cooler, secret, invite only virtual social media conference
3. Not everyone in social media’s mom lets them leave the basement for a whole week
2. I heard all the REALLY cool kids were going to the Star Trek convention
and
1. I enjoy sleep
Thursday, March 19, 2009
In which I explain why Twitter is becoming full of suck.
Poor, poor Twitter.
Say, remember when Twitter had fewer users and people weren't posting nothing but links to this and that and the other thing? And hardly ANYONE re-tweeted or used hashtags?
Aaaaaah, the good old days.
Now it's all about Social Media and the Experts and Gurus and Mavens.
What's funny is that all the social media people spend their time sucking up to the other cliquey social media people...
...which is weird to me because one would THINK that, as a social media EXPERT/MAVEN/GURU, the focus would be on drawing in the regular folk. Aren't the non-SM people the ones to whom you need to sell, to relate?
Based on some informal polling of "Regular People ie NON SOCIAL MEDIA PEOPLE", I have discovered some facts:
Nobody likes nothing but retweets.
Nobody likes nothing but LINKS, especially the self-promotion.
The hashtags! OH DEAR LORD, THE HASHTAGS.
Also? THE NUMBERS ARE MEANINGLESS.
I read some "suggestions" from "power tweeters" and laughed my ASS off. According to them, the way to grow your audience/base is to follow everyone and tweet links and do a bunch of retweets that YOU, as an SM person, feel are relevant.
So you get 2 or 3 thousand (or 10 thousand) followers and suddenly you're a "power twitter user".
First of all, that's the most ridiculous term I ever heard.
Secondly... HOW many of those 2/3/10/50 thousand people ever actually read what you have to say? Percentage-wise.
Go check out some of your 2K (or 10K+) followers and see how many people they're following besides you.
How many of your "relevant" links and retweets are actually getting NOTICED by all those thousands of followers?
Exactly.
So unless they spend 24 out of every 24 hours on twitter, the chances that they will A. See most of the stuff you post
or
2. Visit everyone's profile pages to see what's been written
are exactly SLIM and NONE.
I follow just over 500 people and I miss TONS of stuff. If I'm being honest (damn I sounded just like Simon Cowell right then), there are a handful of people whom I summize daily. The rest? I catch when I can.
I'm not saying social media doesn't have a place; nor am I saying that it can't be lucrative.
What I'm saying is that the only people who find social media interesting are OTHER people in social media.
The rest of the world could give a flying hot shit.
Every "SM" person I've run across thinks they have all the answers.
If that were true... I wouldn't be writing this post right now because you have ANNOYED THE EVERLOVIN' CRAP RIGHT OUT OF ME with your retweets and self-promotion and OH I AM A GURU/MAVEN AND I KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS AND HOW TO MAKE IT WORK.
If it were that easy, we'd all be doing it and making a fortune.
Just like Amway. Right?
Say, remember when Twitter had fewer users and people weren't posting nothing but links to this and that and the other thing? And hardly ANYONE re-tweeted or used hashtags?
Aaaaaah, the good old days.
Now it's all about Social Media and the Experts and Gurus and Mavens.
What's funny is that all the social media people spend their time sucking up to the other cliquey social media people...
...which is weird to me because one would THINK that, as a social media EXPERT/MAVEN/GURU, the focus would be on drawing in the regular folk. Aren't the non-SM people the ones to whom you need to sell, to relate?
Based on some informal polling of "Regular People ie NON SOCIAL MEDIA PEOPLE", I have discovered some facts:
Nobody likes nothing but retweets.
Nobody likes nothing but LINKS, especially the self-promotion.
The hashtags! OH DEAR LORD, THE HASHTAGS.
Also? THE NUMBERS ARE MEANINGLESS.
I read some "suggestions" from "power tweeters" and laughed my ASS off. According to them, the way to grow your audience/base is to follow everyone and tweet links and do a bunch of retweets that YOU, as an SM person, feel are relevant.
So you get 2 or 3 thousand (or 10 thousand) followers and suddenly you're a "power twitter user".
First of all, that's the most ridiculous term I ever heard.
Secondly... HOW many of those 2/3/10/50 thousand people ever actually read what you have to say? Percentage-wise.
Go check out some of your 2K (or 10K+) followers and see how many people they're following besides you.
How many of your "relevant" links and retweets are actually getting NOTICED by all those thousands of followers?
Exactly.
So unless they spend 24 out of every 24 hours on twitter, the chances that they will A. See most of the stuff you post
or
2. Visit everyone's profile pages to see what's been written
are exactly SLIM and NONE.
I follow just over 500 people and I miss TONS of stuff. If I'm being honest (damn I sounded just like Simon Cowell right then), there are a handful of people whom I summize daily. The rest? I catch when I can.
I'm not saying social media doesn't have a place; nor am I saying that it can't be lucrative.
What I'm saying is that the only people who find social media interesting are OTHER people in social media.
The rest of the world could give a flying hot shit.
Every "SM" person I've run across thinks they have all the answers.
If that were true... I wouldn't be writing this post right now because you have ANNOYED THE EVERLOVIN' CRAP RIGHT OUT OF ME with your retweets and self-promotion and OH I AM A GURU/MAVEN AND I KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS AND HOW TO MAKE IT WORK.
If it were that easy, we'd all be doing it and making a fortune.
Just like Amway. Right?
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Because making up your own jokes is fun
In case you missed it on Twitter, I was making up my own "lightbulb" punchlines the other day.
How many twitterers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
100. 1 to screw in the lightbulb and post it to twitter, 99 to re-tweet it.
I like my coffee like I like my men: strong and bitter.
How many Social Media people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
100. 1 to screw in the lightbulb, 4 "gurus" to host a seminar on it, and 95 to discuss how to monetize it.
I like my coffee like I like my exes: finely ground and dark-roasted.
and now for something completely different...
Meg Fowler has got me involved in the fringes of an upcoming event: Social Media for Social Change NYC!
Finally a social media event that isn't about self-promotion. These folks are raising money for charity. They've had a previous event that was successful in raising $$ for Jane Doe in Boston, and now they've joined forces with City Harvest NYC, an organization which rescues food to help feed the homeless.
I love organizations which focus on feeding the hungry in THIS country. We all talk about feeding the people in other countries - which, naturally, is a noble task -- but what about OUR people? Sometimes in this country we care more about abused & homeless animals than we care about PEOPLE.
ANYWAY ANYWAY.
The actual event in NYC is April 3, but on Saturday, March 7th, there is going to be a "Stay At Home" night.
What they're asking is that you STAY HOME instead of going out on that one single night, and all the $$ that you would have spent taking in a movie, or Broadway show, or dinner at Olive Garden, WHATEVER... and DONATING THAT LITTLE BIT OF MONEY. Give fittycent. Or $50. Or whatever you normally spend on a Saturday night out.
Help feed some people. Feel good about yourself.
See? Easy peasy.
Oh, what am I doing? I'll be providing the background music while you stay at home and twitter, or blog, or make UStream videos.
That's right, a SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL edition of Friday Night Live!
WOO!
I'll be hosting a show, with updates on the fun things that other "stay-at-homers" (heehee, I called you HOMERS) are doing...maybe some call-ins to plug the actual event.
Everything from ABC to XYZ, Abba to the Zombies, Paul Anka to Warren Zevon.
So the only question left is...
Can you handle The Full Monty on a Saturday night?
How many twitterers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
100. 1 to screw in the lightbulb and post it to twitter, 99 to re-tweet it.
I like my coffee like I like my men: strong and bitter.
How many Social Media people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
100. 1 to screw in the lightbulb, 4 "gurus" to host a seminar on it, and 95 to discuss how to monetize it.
I like my coffee like I like my exes: finely ground and dark-roasted.
and now for something completely different...
Meg Fowler has got me involved in the fringes of an upcoming event: Social Media for Social Change NYC!
Finally a social media event that isn't about self-promotion. These folks are raising money for charity. They've had a previous event that was successful in raising $$ for Jane Doe in Boston, and now they've joined forces with City Harvest NYC, an organization which rescues food to help feed the homeless.
I love organizations which focus on feeding the hungry in THIS country. We all talk about feeding the people in other countries - which, naturally, is a noble task -- but what about OUR people? Sometimes in this country we care more about abused & homeless animals than we care about PEOPLE.
ANYWAY ANYWAY.
The actual event in NYC is April 3, but on Saturday, March 7th, there is going to be a "Stay At Home" night.
What they're asking is that you STAY HOME instead of going out on that one single night, and all the $$ that you would have spent taking in a movie, or Broadway show, or dinner at Olive Garden, WHATEVER... and DONATING THAT LITTLE BIT OF MONEY. Give fittycent. Or $50. Or whatever you normally spend on a Saturday night out.
Help feed some people. Feel good about yourself.
See? Easy peasy.
Oh, what am I doing? I'll be providing the background music while you stay at home and twitter, or blog, or make UStream videos.
That's right, a SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL edition of Friday Night Live!
WOO!
I'll be hosting a show, with updates on the fun things that other "stay-at-homers" (heehee, I called you HOMERS) are doing...maybe some call-ins to plug the actual event.
Everything from ABC to XYZ, Abba to the Zombies, Paul Anka to Warren Zevon.
So the only question left is...
Can you handle The Full Monty on a Saturday night?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
It's all about the big hair, baby.
If you missed the show live... well, that's okay, because we maxed out our spots on the server & people were jockeying for position! Chatroom was filled with fun and nudity. THE MUSIC WAS AWESOME, because that's how I roll. :)
I DIG THE 80s! was our theme (which yeah, I totally ripped off from VH-1. Sue me), and we had a great time!
GET THE PODCAST!
And mark your calendar for next week, as Jeckles will be my co-host as we play "BOOGIE NIGHTS"!
and now for something completely different...
Typos suck, especially when you're being insulting. Takes a lot of the sting out when you call someone a "cant".
I just wanted to mention that there are some people who think they're playing games with me, and maybe I pretend to be oblivious... BUT I SEE THROUGH YOU. I see what you're really like inside.
And it ain't as pretty as you like for people to think.
Just in case you were wondering.
My darling friend Lisa is arranging a Boston tweet-up... I really, really want to go.
Keep your fingers crossed that I can get my boss to let me have some extra work to earn airline $$ AND that Sperm Donor will take the kids for a night and that the planets are all in perfect alignment, otherwise I won't be able to go.
Not that you care, but still. Cross your fingers for me anyway. Do it for our love. ♥
There was some other stuff that was supposed to go here, but I can't remember what it was.
I'm QUITE sure it was really, really important and electrifying, though.
Sorry.
That is all.
Have a day.
I DIG THE 80s! was our theme (which yeah, I totally ripped off from VH-1. Sue me), and we had a great time!
GET THE PODCAST!
And mark your calendar for next week, as Jeckles will be my co-host as we play "BOOGIE NIGHTS"!
and now for something completely different...
Typos suck, especially when you're being insulting. Takes a lot of the sting out when you call someone a "cant".
I just wanted to mention that there are some people who think they're playing games with me, and maybe I pretend to be oblivious... BUT I SEE THROUGH YOU. I see what you're really like inside.
And it ain't as pretty as you like for people to think.
Just in case you were wondering.
My darling friend Lisa is arranging a Boston tweet-up... I really, really want to go.
Keep your fingers crossed that I can get my boss to let me have some extra work to earn airline $$ AND that Sperm Donor will take the kids for a night and that the planets are all in perfect alignment, otherwise I won't be able to go.
Not that you care, but still. Cross your fingers for me anyway. Do it for our love. ♥
There was some other stuff that was supposed to go here, but I can't remember what it was.
I'm QUITE sure it was really, really important and electrifying, though.
Sorry.
That is all.
Have a day.
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